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One of the twenty-nine · Princeton

Peter Stogdon

Age
23, as the clerk estimated
From
Princeton
Status in the register
Escaped from Princeton in 1780. The name is probably Stockton.
Left for the British
1780
Ship
Ann
Bound for
Saint John River, in what became New Brunswick
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Nova Scotia Archives entry 833, p. 38
Later
Went to New Brunswick, outside the Nova Scotia musters; no further trace found.

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From the British register of 1783, compiled for this project from the transcription at blackloyalist.com and the Nova Scotia Archives database. Ages and descriptions are the clerks’ words. Later traces are name matches, not proven identities. How we write about people.